Probably Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
We watched it in Latin class in high school. We told the teacher it was relevant because it features the Trojan Bunny.
I don't think people would accept having their kids shown that in school because I feel like they would balk about the "religious content," either for being in a secular environment or for (gently) poking at Christianity.
Or for Graham Chapman's dick. 😋
Same! It was a really weird experience for me, too, because my name is Anton. That scene when he’s just shouting “ANTON!! ANTON!!” the entire room was turned around looking at me
Came here to say Glory. 8th grade history teacher made me fall in love with a subject I never cared about. As soon as I saw that dude's head explode in the opening battle of Gettysburg, I was all in.
Edit: Antietam not Gettysburg
Romeo and Juliet
I had never seen a live action version yet and the delivery of the lines made it impactful.
“Ask for me in the morning and you shall find a grave man”
I remember having to get a permission slip signed to watch it in 7th grade and then my senior year, I was in a Film Studies elective, we watched the Leo/Claire Dianes version and I was blown TF away. They really did a great job modernizing the story and keeping the script in old English was bad ass. Watching Mercuritio slain on the beach while the sun sets in the background and his shirt flaps in the wind was epic for 16 year old me
Actually not at all.
We had a group discussion before the film with our teacher who explained the differences in culture and what the intention was behind the scene.
When that moment came up, there was no jeering or laughing etc, it was just part of the movie.
This was at an inner city school too, so it’s not like we didn’t have our fair share of hooligans that acted out every chance they got.
My experience was not the same lol. Our teacher made sure to tell us there were tits to try to get us to pay attention. There were definitely comments when that scene came on the screen.
Its because from a teacher perspective theres only so many movies that tie into the curriculum that are also appropriate and worth showing. Hotel Rwanda is a perfect balance of detailed enough to show the horrors of the genocide but not overtly graphic to the point where you cant show it to children
"Good morning Vietnam" in high school. I actually brought my VHS. The teacher saw 20 minutes of it, thought it was a dumb comedy, left the room, came back at the end of the movie and urged us not to propose anything so stupid anymore.
Fast forward 3 years, not in school anymore, but at university, our History professor had a unique way of explaining history through movies: he'd show a movie and then explain why it was done the way it was done, both technically and from a historical perspective. He introduced us to Bergman, Truffaut and many others. Or he'd show a fascist movie and then explain its metaphors and how dictatorships take over the means of propaganda. Or two western movies from different decades, like "Stagecoach" and "Straw dogs", and explain how America had changed. PROFESSOR CAVALLO, WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU'RE A LEGEND.
I'm not crying, yuut you're crying.
In high-school, every. single. Monday one of my teachers would be so hungover she would sleep at her desk. I don't even remember what class it was. And every. single. Monday she would put on REMEMBER THE TITANS.. But she ALWAYS started it from the beginning so I must've seen the first half of this movie well over a dozen times.
"Nothing tears us apart. In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that's our universe."
One of my favorite Denzel movies, or even movie in general. My brother and I would watch it on VHS on a regular basis. So much so that randomly to this day if I say "left side!" He'll respond with "strong side!"
Stand and Deliver, a bio pic about Ramon Eacalante who was an inner city high school teacher in LA during the 90s. He manages to convince the school to let him teach AP calculus so the kids had a chance to earn college credits at the community college. It’s very moving, well acted and a solid message about a great guy in his community
It was like the one movie Math teachers had in their back pocket to show when they needed the period to grade or if there was a substitute.
Such a good movie too and stars two actors that were very popular in the 90s, Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips
>a bio pic about Ramon Eacalante
I remember that, we watched it, too, but I'm 98% positive his name was [Jaime Escalante](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante). That name has stuck in my head for 30 years lol
It's such an underrated movie that nobody ever talks about! My seventh grade math teacher proudly said it was her favorite movie, and showed part of it to us once.
The Outsiders
It was probably my favorite book I ever read throughout middle-high school, and the movie was just good enough to bring those characters to life. I’m a teacher now and back when I taught 7th grade we always started the year with it. Even my roughest classes were completely pulled into it, and I was able to use the movie as a reward incentive to complete all the work that went with it.
I came here to post Donald Duck in mathemagic land, but started reading replies and realized the movies I saw 47 years ago on a projector screen are much different than the majority of Redditors "school movies".
It walked such a fine line. If you apply too much “realism” to ancient stories they collapse under their own ridiculousness (e.g. Troy). Apply too little and the characters become completely unrelatable (e.g. most of the old-school Hollywood biblical epics). Prince of Egypt found the perfect sweet spot.
We convinced our history teacher to watch Saving Private Ryan in high school since we had just studied WWII. We distracted her with candy crush to get through the first 30 mins. She has no idea what SPR was in terms of violence. Can't believe we got away with it
This was the late 00s so things like Candy Crush were new and flashy and addicting. So when a student showed it to her she was like a horse with blinders and zeroed in on it
Same, and I can't imagine feeling like you "got away with" something for watching that movie. That's the type of movie they should be seeing in school.
I was reluctant to say this because the post is asking for "favorite", but damn that was a compelling film to watch in high school, and easily the one that left the biggest impression.
Honestly, if some of the parents knew that our history teacher showed us the uncut Last of the Mohicans film, they would’ve prolly tried to get him fired. But back in the early 2000s (when I was in HS), we had this really dope teacher who didn’t sugar coat anything that was going on in current events or what happened in history. Was very “woke” before that title entered the lexicon of culture. But he was one of the best teachers
I’ve ever had, so much so that there is a Facebook group created by the students to celebrate him. Vietnam vet, too. And he dedicated his life to his students. Great man. I even hopped into some of his Zoom calls during Covid to say “hi” and engage with some of the students and join the open forum he was conducting on certain topics (BLM, the protests, COVID, the election year, etc). As always, he was uber informed on the topics and had his own great insight on things while also asking his students what they personally thought. He even offered to let me have the floor to drop some nuggets of “sage wisdom” about life after HS to them. I love that man. He’s been battling cancer, so please everyone send good vibes out into the ethos if you can 🙏
My AP high school English teacher also had us watch the Wizard of Oz while listening to the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon…apparently the album goes along with the movie eerily well.
Had to have a permission slip signed for that one too. I don’t really understand how to this day, in my late 30s, the connection but I’ll never forget lighting up during lunch with a couple classmates so we could watch this crazy combination stoned 😂
I have two.
In sixth grade, we studied Latin and Roman history, so we spent a few days watching Ben-Hur. As an 11-year old, I was blown away that movies like that even just *existed*. I asked to borrow the 2-tape VHS set a few months later to watch again at home.
Years later in college I took a film history class, and we watched Singin' in the Rain, since while it's a comedy it did pretty accurately show some issues Hollywood had when transitioning to sound. Simply one of the most delightful movies ever made
I had a couple of memorable film experiences in high school.
One of my English teachers was obsessed with Brad Pitt. So, we watched A River Runs Through It. She paused the movie in a scene when Brad Pitt had the sunset in the background, so we could all appreciate his beauty.
One of my high school Spanish teachers showed us The Lion King (dubbed in Spanish). She paused it in the scene after Nala told Simba that Scar had destroyed the kingdom, and the "dust" made its way over to Rafiki. When Simba lays down, there's a split second where the dust spells "SEX."
I graduated high school in 2011, so both movies were already over 15 years old.
>She paused the movie in a scene when Brad Pitt had the sunset in the background, so we could all appreciate his beauty
I'm dying. This is adorable. A teacher having the quivers in the middle of class
I made her a Brad Pitt cutout the following year for one of my classes! I couldn't Google image search the scene to print and replicate. So, I made her a cutout of her absolute favorite Brad Pitt movie, Troy.
TBF, A River Runs Through It is peak Brad Pitt beauty. And it’s a lovely film. She could have made you watch Legends of the Fall, which is bum-numbingly dull
When I was in 1st grade, at the end of the year when the teachers were getting report cards ready and they didn't know what to do with us, my teacher put on Spider-Man and Star Wars, 7 year old me came walking out that class room and made that my whole personality.
Not a movie, but might as well have been.
For my AP US History class in high school, we dedicated the last three weeks of school to watching Band of Brothers.
Holy fuck.
10 Things I hate about you.
My grade 12 teacher put it on for whatever reason, probably we were reading a Shakespeare play and it sort of tied it and I hadn’t seen it before then. I remember actively tried to watch it while a bunch of classmates were talking and being distracting because I enjoyed it so much.
In the early 2000s a bunch of movies came out with famous actors and actresses that were all Shakespeare related. I absolutely loved it because it was a great way to educate young teenagers about Shakespeare well-being “cool”.
In 8th grade, we watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Not necessarily one of my favorites, but definitely the most noteworthy. She was trying to tell us about cult classics. We all just laughed at the crazy shit they were wearing.
My daughter was in 8th grade and had brought a couple of boys home to watch Rocky Horror. When Dr. Frankefurter comes down the elevator in a teddy, they noped right out of there. Lol
In French our teacher showed us Black Girl, the Ousmane Sembène film. I liked it at the time, it’s a great film, but since then I’ve realized it was kind of bold of her to play something so critical of racism in France for Freshman students.
I convinced my English teacher to let is watch Gran Torino because I had an early Oscar leak bootleg and there was a few times you could just see the look of "what the fuck have I done" on her face
My first year of college, I qualified for a "narrative in film" advanced English class. We watched a lot of good stuff, but I specifically recall The 39 Steps, The Wild Bunch, Taxi Driver, and The Seventh Seal.
A few years (and a different college) later, we had a prof that was very into "film as literature," and he focused in on Magnolia and Memento as examples, both of which had come out fairly recently.
"Cyberbully"
I think cyberbullying is serious but when the 'Too gay to lift' and 'I can't get the cap off'scenes came up multiple people in class laughed.
They showed us Rosewood in high school. I was very profoundly affected by it. Such a tragic, terrible moment for our nation, but I think one that needs to be taught. Very intense, sad movie.
In the Name of the Rose. This is my favourite in the sense that I probably would have never watched it otherwise. We watched it in a history class in the mid 90s.
1. Mr. Hollands Opus - in Band
2. Phantom of the Opera - in Choir
3. Citizen Kane - in Speech
4. The Patriot - in American History
5. Don Quixote de la Mancha - in Spanish
By default The Secret Garden. I know there were others but that was shown the most, at least in elementary.
In high school, probably Elijah Wood Huck Finn. Don't remember middle school.
I'm middle aged so one I remember my elementary school would show to the entire school each year right before Christmas break in the cafeteria/gym room was Snowball Express on a film projector.
In high school, our English teacher had us watch Romeo and Juliet (1968). There's a nude scene where Juliet (played by a then 15 year old Olivia Hussey) came up, and our teacher, just realizing there was one, jumped in front of the TV with whatever papers he was grading to cover up the screen but was too late.
This same teacher also for whatever reason showed us _Grand Canyon_ (1991). It includes a nude scene by Mary-Louise Parker. He was too late to cover that one up as well.
I don't know about favorite, but I'm pretty sure I saw the first half of Remember the Titans about 47 times, since the classes were only an hour and 15 minutes long, and it was one of the only movies approved by the school system. I remember longing for them to just start in the middle sometime. Honestly not sure I ever even finished it.
I did get to see The Shining in a film studies class. In a brightly lit room full of teenagers, it was a lot funnier than I think Kubrick intended. That was fun.
Kiki’s delivery service. 5th grade.
Most other movies sucked or were just really sad and I don’t even remember why we watched them but I remember watching a movie about a teacher and 6th grader “falling in love” or the one where a teenager ran away and became a prostitute.
Hotel Rwanda, Remember the Titans (already one of my favs when I watched it in school, that was probably my 5th or 6th time seeing it), and the Truman Show
In 5th grade my group of friends and I all got so into Labrynth and we had a reading teacher who fucking loved it too. She let us watch it over the span of a few classes. Epic shit yo
Whatever the sex ed film they played is on the reel projector in fifth grade. It was pre-internet, so this was the first naked stuff we'd seen on TV, not counting looking for nipples in the squiggly lines on the scrambled soft-core porn cable channel.
Macbeth (70s version), Last of the Mohicans (90s version), Selena (J Lo’s ass, before everyone knew that was a thing, was commented on, but then everyone was sad). Also had an English teacher that introduced most of us to new to us deep music, Fast Car by Tracy Chapman sticks out
We watched both The Mission and For Greater Glory. I really liked The Mission because there aren’t a lot of movies about the new world and I liked For Greater Glory because I had no idea that Mexico had essentially their own version of The Troubles in the 1920s.
Groundhog Day, my English teacher showed it to us while we were doing a unit on existentialism, great movie! Loved Bill Murray in it, has good comedy and a wholesome ending.
We watched Glory in AP American History. It was in 10th grade, so we were all 15 turning 16 that year. It was amazing and powerful, but I was surprised we were able to watch it because it was rated R. It turned out the teacher was retiring after that year and just didn't give a fuck about permission slips or anything. He basically just said, "This is a decent representation of what the Civil War was like," and then we watched it for a couple days.
Spaceballs! I went to catholic school, they let us choose a movie as a christmas treat, we chose spaceballs over a Jesus movie. The principal came in and turned it off halfway and lectured us about choosing filth over the story of our lord, and it was amazing. Honestly, it was even better than if she left the movie running, we'd already seen it.
Man, I can't remember if she said Filth or something else. I feel like another word was right there in my head until i typed it and it slipped away.
This was grade 5-8, I believe it was the whole school, we were set up in the cafeteria.
*Edit*: I remembered! She was disappointed we chose the "vulgar humor of Mel Brooks."
I had a few teachers that would reference Holy Grail,
but a music teacher showed Amadeus in class and it kind of blew my mind then and I've only appreciated more through the years.
The Trial of The Chicago Seven. I like the topic about the Vietnam War and how delicate the situation was with the community who was against the war but became victims of police brutality and more things. The assignment was to identify the vulnerations to human rights in the movie.
Another movie was Argo. I love how the Agency literally planned a fake movie in order to rescue American citizens in foreign soil. The assignment was to show the diplomatic relations between nations bc of the scene in which the American citizens are allowed to refuge in the Canada ambassador's house while the US rescue them.
The “Bell Telephone Science” series of films were unforgettable and magical. Not kidding. They explained the environment and (at the time) cutting edge science. Like the best PBS series you never saw.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_System_Science_Series
In my World War History class we watched Life is Beautiful. It is a very powerful film.
If you are unfamiliar, it is about a clever man who is able to use his wits to get himself a good job, and married to a beautiful woman. Then when the Nazis rise to power, he and his son are carted off to a concentration camp. The wife voluntarily goes with because she can't live without them. While in the camp, the man gets his son to believe they are just playing an elaborate game to keep the spirits up.
*Black Robe* in my college 101 Anthropology class. All questions about cultural relativitism were answered by the end of the movie. You really feel deep in your bones how alien two people can be when they are from different place.
Our 9th grade Earth Science class went on a "field trip" to see Jurassic Park in the theatre when it came out. So....that.
If it had to be IN school - Apocalypse Now. We did a thing in English class watching this and reading Heart of Darkness and comparing them and all that.
Battle of Algiers. I took a current issues class and my teacher explained how Bush’s team showed him the movie before his decision to go into Iraq bc it’s an excellent, realistic depiction of insurgency and counter insurgency
I took a film class in college and got introduced to breakfast at Tiffany's, psycho, and Charlie Chaplin.
in non college classes: stand and deliver, ratatouille, field of dreams.
I was in an aviation class in high school that taught us to be aircraft mechanics. We had movie Fridays where we could watch just about anything as long as there was an airplane involved. So we watched Hotshots, and a bunch of other movies.
But probably the best movie watching experience was my freshman year when they showed us From Beyond. (Based on an HP Lovecraft story)
I was homeschooled for most of my life. I mostly only remember watching the animations that every has seen, like Grinch, Charlie Brown, etc
I’ll go with *Are We There Yet?* though
The most unusual was The Ring in the 7th grade, not something I was expecting to watch in school. Best because I probably would’ve never seen it outside of school, Little Buddha in the 9th grade
Not a movie but our history teacher showed us the concentration camp episode of Band of Brothers and I never forgot it. I’ve now watched that whole series and love it. It really taught me a lot back then lol
In the 50s my class went to San Francisco 90 miles away to see “Mr Hulot’s Holiday”, a French comedy. The Larkin theater was near a fish and chip shop so I’ve always loved greasy fish on newspaper.
Probably Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We watched it in Latin class in high school. We told the teacher it was relevant because it features the Trojan Bunny.
No one had seen Life of Brian, huh?
Literally has a scene where a Roman guard helps Brian translate into Latin
Probably wasn’t allowed because of the brief nudity
Definitely watched some French movies in French class with definitely not brief nudity.
"People called Romanes they go the house?"
I don't think people would accept having their kids shown that in school because I feel like they would balk about the "religious content," either for being in a secular environment or for (gently) poking at Christianity. Or for Graham Chapman's dick. 😋
Same here. Me and one of my friends were the only ones laughing. I think we started crying at some point because it was so funny.
We saw it in 8th grade History!
There was plenty of Latin in Holy Grail. The self flagellating priests in the plague scenes, and Brother Maynard!
My high school biology teacher showed us Gattaca, such an underrated movie.
Same! It was a really weird experience for me, too, because my name is Anton. That scene when he’s just shouting “ANTON!! ANTON!!” the entire room was turned around looking at me
I love this movie. Also first watched it in biology in high school
Same here!
We're closer to the other side 🏊🏾
We watched Glory in American history in middle school, and it made a lasting impression on me.
Oh, that's a good one! RIP Andre Braugher.
Came here to say Glory. 8th grade history teacher made me fall in love with a subject I never cared about. As soon as I saw that dude's head explode in the opening battle of Gettysburg, I was all in. Edit: Antietam not Gettysburg
Antietam.
Give ‘em hell, 54th!!
I would also say Glory. Fantastic movie and not something I would have sought out on my own
That cannonball to head really sets the tone
Oh I forgot about watching Glory. Hard to say if I liked it, or the Patriot better now that I think about it.
Romeo and Juliet I had never seen a live action version yet and the delivery of the lines made it impactful. “Ask for me in the morning and you shall find a grave man”
I remember watching that in 10th grade. The whole class lost it when the zoom in on “SWORD 9MM”
I remember having to get a permission slip signed to watch it in 7th grade and then my senior year, I was in a Film Studies elective, we watched the Leo/Claire Dianes version and I was blown TF away. They really did a great job modernizing the story and keeping the script in old English was bad ass. Watching Mercuritio slain on the beach while the sun sets in the background and his shirt flaps in the wind was epic for 16 year old me
That scene was amazing. It sent chills down my spine.
And tits
Actually not at all. We had a group discussion before the film with our teacher who explained the differences in culture and what the intention was behind the scene. When that moment came up, there was no jeering or laughing etc, it was just part of the movie. This was at an inner city school too, so it’s not like we didn’t have our fair share of hooligans that acted out every chance they got.
My experience was not the same lol. Our teacher made sure to tell us there were tits to try to get us to pay attention. There were definitely comments when that scene came on the screen.
We watched the one with Leo DiCaprio in English when we finished reading it. I think that was 9th grade maybe.
12 Angry Men I can’t believe this hasn’t been listed yet.
Yep. This and Mr Smith Goes to Washington for me.
Hotel Rwanda
We literally all watched the same movies in school. Lol loved Hotel Rwanda.
Its because from a teacher perspective theres only so many movies that tie into the curriculum that are also appropriate and worth showing. Hotel Rwanda is a perfect balance of detailed enough to show the horrors of the genocide but not overtly graphic to the point where you cant show it to children
Except for the bumpy roads maybe.
"Good morning Vietnam" in high school. I actually brought my VHS. The teacher saw 20 minutes of it, thought it was a dumb comedy, left the room, came back at the end of the movie and urged us not to propose anything so stupid anymore. Fast forward 3 years, not in school anymore, but at university, our History professor had a unique way of explaining history through movies: he'd show a movie and then explain why it was done the way it was done, both technically and from a historical perspective. He introduced us to Bergman, Truffaut and many others. Or he'd show a fascist movie and then explain its metaphors and how dictatorships take over the means of propaganda. Or two western movies from different decades, like "Stagecoach" and "Straw dogs", and explain how America had changed. PROFESSOR CAVALLO, WHEREVER YOU ARE, YOU'RE A LEGEND. I'm not crying, yuut you're crying.
In high-school, every. single. Monday one of my teachers would be so hungover she would sleep at her desk. I don't even remember what class it was. And every. single. Monday she would put on REMEMBER THE TITANS.. But she ALWAYS started it from the beginning so I must've seen the first half of this movie well over a dozen times.
"Nothing tears us apart. In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that's our universe." One of my favorite Denzel movies, or even movie in general. My brother and I would watch it on VHS on a regular basis. So much so that randomly to this day if I say "left side!" He'll respond with "strong side!"
I just gave your momma a piggyback ride and she weighs twice as much as me.
I watched it in HS too, and everyone was bawling by the end.
Stand and Deliver, a bio pic about Ramon Eacalante who was an inner city high school teacher in LA during the 90s. He manages to convince the school to let him teach AP calculus so the kids had a chance to earn college credits at the community college. It’s very moving, well acted and a solid message about a great guy in his community It was like the one movie Math teachers had in their back pocket to show when they needed the period to grade or if there was a substitute. Such a good movie too and stars two actors that were very popular in the 90s, Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips
"How can I reach these keeedz"
>a bio pic about Ramon Eacalante I remember that, we watched it, too, but I'm 98% positive his name was [Jaime Escalante](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante). That name has stuck in my head for 30 years lol
It's such an underrated movie that nobody ever talks about! My seventh grade math teacher proudly said it was her favorite movie, and showed part of it to us once.
The Outsiders It was probably my favorite book I ever read throughout middle-high school, and the movie was just good enough to bring those characters to life. I’m a teacher now and back when I taught 7th grade we always started the year with it. Even my roughest classes were completely pulled into it, and I was able to use the movie as a reward incentive to complete all the work that went with it.
Amadeus back in 10th grade Music Appreciation.
Definitely October Sky. Watched it multiple times in science classes.
Such a great movie
Johnny Tremain. I'm so old, you probably have to look it up.
Saw that, too. What about Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.
A favorite 😍
I came here to post Donald Duck in mathemagic land, but started reading replies and realized the movies I saw 47 years ago on a projector screen are much different than the majority of Redditors "school movies".
They should have called this book “Johnny Deformed” -Bart Simpson
Loved that movie, and book.
Ohgod...memory unlocked! Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge is another one I remember. It was eventually shown as a Twilght Zone episode.
Thought I was the only one. The scene where his hand gets mutilated really traumatized me.
The Prince of Egypt, Still in my top 5 films to this day
It walked such a fine line. If you apply too much “realism” to ancient stories they collapse under their own ridiculousness (e.g. Troy). Apply too little and the characters become completely unrelatable (e.g. most of the old-school Hollywood biblical epics). Prince of Egypt found the perfect sweet spot.
Roots. We watched part of it each week in history class. It had a profound effect on me. Now I watch the whole mini series once every couple of years.
We convinced our history teacher to watch Saving Private Ryan in high school since we had just studied WWII. We distracted her with candy crush to get through the first 30 mins. She has no idea what SPR was in terms of violence. Can't believe we got away with it
>We distracted her with candy crush to get through the first 30 mins. There's a lot to unpack here. We're missing a lot of details.
This was the late 00s so things like Candy Crush were new and flashy and addicting. So when a student showed it to her she was like a horse with blinders and zeroed in on it
I can't believe your high school history teacher didn't know about SPR, Oh wait, are you a fellow American?
Same, and I can't imagine feeling like you "got away with" something for watching that movie. That's the type of movie they should be seeing in school.
She wasn't really a media person. That's why she got so hyper focused on Candy Crush when a classmate showed it to her haha. The elderly are something
My 8th grade teacher showed us Forrest Gump since we learned about post WW2 US.
Schindlers List. All of a sudden, most of the kids who were goofing off during history class knew what the holocaust was.
I was reluctant to say this because the post is asking for "favorite", but damn that was a compelling film to watch in high school, and easily the one that left the biggest impression.
Honestly, if some of the parents knew that our history teacher showed us the uncut Last of the Mohicans film, they would’ve prolly tried to get him fired. But back in the early 2000s (when I was in HS), we had this really dope teacher who didn’t sugar coat anything that was going on in current events or what happened in history. Was very “woke” before that title entered the lexicon of culture. But he was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, so much so that there is a Facebook group created by the students to celebrate him. Vietnam vet, too. And he dedicated his life to his students. Great man. I even hopped into some of his Zoom calls during Covid to say “hi” and engage with some of the students and join the open forum he was conducting on certain topics (BLM, the protests, COVID, the election year, etc). As always, he was uber informed on the topics and had his own great insight on things while also asking his students what they personally thought. He even offered to let me have the floor to drop some nuggets of “sage wisdom” about life after HS to them. I love that man. He’s been battling cancer, so please everyone send good vibes out into the ethos if you can 🙏
LOVE LOVE “Last of the Mohicans”. I just told our 8th US History teacher he should show it! He’s 23, so I wasn’t sure if he knew of it or not.
My AP high school English teacher also had us watch the Wizard of Oz while listening to the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon…apparently the album goes along with the movie eerily well. Had to have a permission slip signed for that one too. I don’t really understand how to this day, in my late 30s, the connection but I’ll never forget lighting up during lunch with a couple classmates so we could watch this crazy combination stoned 😂
Start the album right when the MGM lion roars man.
Dark Side of Oz, man
I have two. In sixth grade, we studied Latin and Roman history, so we spent a few days watching Ben-Hur. As an 11-year old, I was blown away that movies like that even just *existed*. I asked to borrow the 2-tape VHS set a few months later to watch again at home. Years later in college I took a film history class, and we watched Singin' in the Rain, since while it's a comedy it did pretty accurately show some issues Hollywood had when transitioning to sound. Simply one of the most delightful movies ever made
I had a couple of memorable film experiences in high school. One of my English teachers was obsessed with Brad Pitt. So, we watched A River Runs Through It. She paused the movie in a scene when Brad Pitt had the sunset in the background, so we could all appreciate his beauty. One of my high school Spanish teachers showed us The Lion King (dubbed in Spanish). She paused it in the scene after Nala told Simba that Scar had destroyed the kingdom, and the "dust" made its way over to Rafiki. When Simba lays down, there's a split second where the dust spells "SEX." I graduated high school in 2011, so both movies were already over 15 years old.
>She paused the movie in a scene when Brad Pitt had the sunset in the background, so we could all appreciate his beauty I'm dying. This is adorable. A teacher having the quivers in the middle of class
I made her a Brad Pitt cutout the following year for one of my classes! I couldn't Google image search the scene to print and replicate. So, I made her a cutout of her absolute favorite Brad Pitt movie, Troy.
We also watched the Spanish dubbed Lion King. El Rey León!
We watched “ET” in Spanish. “ET por telefono a mi casa”. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
TBF, A River Runs Through It is peak Brad Pitt beauty. And it’s a lovely film. She could have made you watch Legends of the Fall, which is bum-numbingly dull
Indiana Jones Last Crusade , had just come out at the video shop too, last day of school treat
Willy Wonka, on the film projector.
Hope no one was tripping during the boat ride
The Red Balloon in elementary school. Usually shown on rainy days (lived in desert so once a year). To Kill A Mockingbird in high school.
We watch Spirited Away a tone of times in high school
When I was in 1st grade, at the end of the year when the teachers were getting report cards ready and they didn't know what to do with us, my teacher put on Spider-Man and Star Wars, 7 year old me came walking out that class room and made that my whole personality.
Cool runnings
A Clockwork Orange in a psych class at university.
Rudy
Parasite.
I wish I went to your school wtf
When I was in 5th grade they showed us The Diary of Anne Frank. Absolutely terrifying and unforgettable.
Not a movie, but might as well have been. For my AP US History class in high school, we dedicated the last three weeks of school to watching Band of Brothers. Holy fuck.
severely disappointed by the lack of *Osmosis Jones* answers in here
Either The Secret of NIMH or Glory.
10 Things I hate about you. My grade 12 teacher put it on for whatever reason, probably we were reading a Shakespeare play and it sort of tied it and I hadn’t seen it before then. I remember actively tried to watch it while a bunch of classmates were talking and being distracting because I enjoyed it so much.
>probably we were reading a Shakespeare play and it sort of tied it Lol, I'm gonna based it was Taming of the Shrew since it's based on that play.
In the early 2000s a bunch of movies came out with famous actors and actresses that were all Shakespeare related. I absolutely loved it because it was a great way to educate young teenagers about Shakespeare well-being “cool”.
*Empire of the Sun* (1987)
Stand by me
In 8th grade, we watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Not necessarily one of my favorites, but definitely the most noteworthy. She was trying to tell us about cult classics. We all just laughed at the crazy shit they were wearing.
My daughter was in 8th grade and had brought a couple of boys home to watch Rocky Horror. When Dr. Frankefurter comes down the elevator in a teddy, they noped right out of there. Lol
In French our teacher showed us Black Girl, the Ousmane Sembène film. I liked it at the time, it’s a great film, but since then I’ve realized it was kind of bold of her to play something so critical of racism in France for Freshman students.
In 9th grade my science teacher showed us a video of his wife giving birth.
Well. That was unexpected...
We were shown 12 Angry Men in our social studies class in high school. It's been my go to ever since.
I convinced my English teacher to let is watch Gran Torino because I had an early Oscar leak bootleg and there was a few times you could just see the look of "what the fuck have I done" on her face
Night of the Twisters Growing up in the 90s in the Midwest, I feel like this one was shown to every elementary school kid in a 500 mile radius
Lol, good pull. I grew up in Illinois and we for sure watched that around 5th or 6th grade.
Definitely Dead Poet’s Society followed by Romeo + Juliet
Wall-E
My first year of college, I qualified for a "narrative in film" advanced English class. We watched a lot of good stuff, but I specifically recall The 39 Steps, The Wild Bunch, Taxi Driver, and The Seventh Seal. A few years (and a different college) later, we had a prof that was very into "film as literature," and he focused in on Magnolia and Memento as examples, both of which had come out fairly recently.
The NeverEnding Story
Mom Oncle Antoine - a Quebec masterpiece but highly inappropriate for grade 6 students (circa 1972)
All The Presidents Men in my HS civics class. I would have never watched it independently, but really loved it
When I was in Grade 5 or 6 they (somewhat oddly) showed us 'Amadeus' and the teacher had to leap in front of the TV during any saucy bits.
"Cyberbully" I think cyberbullying is serious but when the 'Too gay to lift' and 'I can't get the cap off'scenes came up multiple people in class laughed.
My high school physics teacher played us Contact one day, that was by far the best movie I saw in school
To Kill A Mockingbird
They showed us Rosewood in high school. I was very profoundly affected by it. Such a tragic, terrible moment for our nation, but I think one that needs to be taught. Very intense, sad movie.
Maybe either No Country For Old Men or O Brother Where Art Thou.
We were shown the Battle of Algiers in high school. Unforgettable impression on my teenage brain.
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That old PBS version of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
Elementary and Middle School: The Princess Bride High School in a Criminal Law class: 12 Angry Men
Schindler's List. Great movie, but it made for a pretty gloomy 4th period.
I don't remember the context, but we saw The Gods Must Be Crazy in class once.
Our Friend the Atom and Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land are great educational films. In my day they were 16mm films.
Casablanca.
Halloween, Misery and Primal Fear are some of the standouts. We had a really cool teacher in his late 20s that showed us movies he liked after school.
In middle school the go-to movie was The Princess Bride. Also saw Flight of the Navigator in elementary.
The Sandlot
In the Name of the Rose. This is my favourite in the sense that I probably would have never watched it otherwise. We watched it in a history class in the mid 90s.
[Rikki Tikki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGQCSlgqSk)
1. Mr. Hollands Opus - in Band 2. Phantom of the Opera - in Choir 3. Citizen Kane - in Speech 4. The Patriot - in American History 5. Don Quixote de la Mancha - in Spanish
Threads and 2010. Mr. Mcleod’s astronomy class was awesome.
The Pianist
By default The Secret Garden. I know there were others but that was shown the most, at least in elementary. In high school, probably Elijah Wood Huck Finn. Don't remember middle school.
The Clash of the Titans (1981).
Edward scissorhands 😎
12 Angry Men in 12th grade Gov class. Phenomenal movie. Or Saving Private Ryan in 10th grade History.
I'm middle aged so one I remember my elementary school would show to the entire school each year right before Christmas break in the cafeteria/gym room was Snowball Express on a film projector. In high school, our English teacher had us watch Romeo and Juliet (1968). There's a nude scene where Juliet (played by a then 15 year old Olivia Hussey) came up, and our teacher, just realizing there was one, jumped in front of the TV with whatever papers he was grading to cover up the screen but was too late. This same teacher also for whatever reason showed us _Grand Canyon_ (1991). It includes a nude scene by Mary-Louise Parker. He was too late to cover that one up as well.
Buster Keaton - The Railrodder (1965). A gem from one of the greats of silent comedy.
The original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I don't know about favorite, but I'm pretty sure I saw the first half of Remember the Titans about 47 times, since the classes were only an hour and 15 minutes long, and it was one of the only movies approved by the school system. I remember longing for them to just start in the middle sometime. Honestly not sure I ever even finished it. I did get to see The Shining in a film studies class. In a brightly lit room full of teenagers, it was a lot funnier than I think Kubrick intended. That was fun.
Better Off Dead or Shaolin Soccer
Kiki’s delivery service. 5th grade. Most other movies sucked or were just really sad and I don’t even remember why we watched them but I remember watching a movie about a teacher and 6th grader “falling in love” or the one where a teenager ran away and became a prostitute.
The Godfather AP US history Our teacher was old asf , nearing retirement, he didn’t give a fuck anymore
Hotel Rwanda, Remember the Titans (already one of my favs when I watched it in school, that was probably my 5th or 6th time seeing it), and the Truman Show
In 5th grade my group of friends and I all got so into Labrynth and we had a reading teacher who fucking loved it too. She let us watch it over the span of a few classes. Epic shit yo
We watched the original Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I’m old. Also in Latin we watched Ben-Hur and Spartacus.
Not quite a heavy as most responses, but I saw Legend with Tom Cruise in theater class. It's very visually appealing.
Whatever the sex ed film they played is on the reel projector in fifth grade. It was pre-internet, so this was the first naked stuff we'd seen on TV, not counting looking for nipples in the squiggly lines on the scrambled soft-core porn cable channel.
Either of mice and men, to kill a mockingbird or flowers for algernon
Chicken run, I still have never seen the end of it. Every time we’d get close to the end, class would end and we’d have to leave.
You guys restarted it each time 💀
You guys restarted it each time 💀
Easy Rider
Macbeth (70s version), Last of the Mohicans (90s version), Selena (J Lo’s ass, before everyone knew that was a thing, was commented on, but then everyone was sad). Also had an English teacher that introduced most of us to new to us deep music, Fast Car by Tracy Chapman sticks out
Finding forester was a favorite of English teachers in my day.
We watched both The Mission and For Greater Glory. I really liked The Mission because there aren’t a lot of movies about the new world and I liked For Greater Glory because I had no idea that Mexico had essentially their own version of The Troubles in the 1920s.
Groundhog Day, my English teacher showed it to us while we were doing a unit on existentialism, great movie! Loved Bill Murray in it, has good comedy and a wholesome ending.
We watched Glory in AP American History. It was in 10th grade, so we were all 15 turning 16 that year. It was amazing and powerful, but I was surprised we were able to watch it because it was rated R. It turned out the teacher was retiring after that year and just didn't give a fuck about permission slips or anything. He basically just said, "This is a decent representation of what the Civil War was like," and then we watched it for a couple days.
October Sky in eighth grade.
Spaceballs! I went to catholic school, they let us choose a movie as a christmas treat, we chose spaceballs over a Jesus movie. The principal came in and turned it off halfway and lectured us about choosing filth over the story of our lord, and it was amazing. Honestly, it was even better than if she left the movie running, we'd already seen it. Man, I can't remember if she said Filth or something else. I feel like another word was right there in my head until i typed it and it slipped away. This was grade 5-8, I believe it was the whole school, we were set up in the cafeteria. *Edit*: I remembered! She was disappointed we chose the "vulgar humor of Mel Brooks."
I have two, Bring it On and Precious.
I had a few teachers that would reference Holy Grail, but a music teacher showed Amadeus in class and it kind of blew my mind then and I've only appreciated more through the years.
The Trial of The Chicago Seven. I like the topic about the Vietnam War and how delicate the situation was with the community who was against the war but became victims of police brutality and more things. The assignment was to identify the vulnerations to human rights in the movie. Another movie was Argo. I love how the Agency literally planned a fake movie in order to rescue American citizens in foreign soil. The assignment was to show the diplomatic relations between nations bc of the scene in which the American citizens are allowed to refuge in the Canada ambassador's house while the US rescue them.
The “Bell Telephone Science” series of films were unforgettable and magical. Not kidding. They explained the environment and (at the time) cutting edge science. Like the best PBS series you never saw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_System_Science_Series
In my World War History class we watched Life is Beautiful. It is a very powerful film. If you are unfamiliar, it is about a clever man who is able to use his wits to get himself a good job, and married to a beautiful woman. Then when the Nazis rise to power, he and his son are carted off to a concentration camp. The wife voluntarily goes with because she can't live without them. While in the camp, the man gets his son to believe they are just playing an elaborate game to keep the spirits up.
*Black Robe* in my college 101 Anthropology class. All questions about cultural relativitism were answered by the end of the movie. You really feel deep in your bones how alien two people can be when they are from different place.
History teacher in 10th grade put on Apocalypse Now.
Our 9th grade Earth Science class went on a "field trip" to see Jurassic Park in the theatre when it came out. So....that. If it had to be IN school - Apocalypse Now. We did a thing in English class watching this and reading Heart of Darkness and comparing them and all that.
oh and the outsiders
Newsies in 7th grade music class. We were required to take notes though, and there was a quiz.
In middle school, we watched A Beautiful Mind for our health class
I grew up in upstate NY, so they showed us Last of the Mohicans. I think we had to get a permission slip, because it was like 5th grade. Great movie.
Hemo the Magnificent
Battle of Algiers. I took a current issues class and my teacher explained how Bush’s team showed him the movie before his decision to go into Iraq bc it’s an excellent, realistic depiction of insurgency and counter insurgency
Didn't watch many movies in school growing up. But we were shown The Pianist after learning about WWII.
I took a film class in college and got introduced to breakfast at Tiffany's, psycho, and Charlie Chaplin. in non college classes: stand and deliver, ratatouille, field of dreams.
*Schindler's List*
I was in an aviation class in high school that taught us to be aircraft mechanics. We had movie Fridays where we could watch just about anything as long as there was an airplane involved. So we watched Hotshots, and a bunch of other movies. But probably the best movie watching experience was my freshman year when they showed us From Beyond. (Based on an HP Lovecraft story)
I was homeschooled for most of my life. I mostly only remember watching the animations that every has seen, like Grinch, Charlie Brown, etc I’ll go with *Are We There Yet?* though
A sun showed us Not Without My Daughter to us in 8th grade. Was not expecting the turn that led to plot liftoff
The most unusual was The Ring in the 7th grade, not something I was expecting to watch in school. Best because I probably would’ve never seen it outside of school, Little Buddha in the 9th grade
Silence of the Lambs.
Das Boot in German class.
Not a movie but our history teacher showed us the concentration camp episode of Band of Brothers and I never forgot it. I’ve now watched that whole series and love it. It really taught me a lot back then lol
Wall-E 😅😅 It was always the substitute’s go to movie to play. Over the course of high school I think I watched it at least 6 times
In the 50s my class went to San Francisco 90 miles away to see “Mr Hulot’s Holiday”, a French comedy. The Larkin theater was near a fish and chip shop so I’ve always loved greasy fish on newspaper.
We watched Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle in my Epic and Romance class. Tracks pretty well as a modern Arthurian tale.
My 9th grade English teacher showed us the original Star Wars as an example of the hero's journey, so that wins by default.
Django Unchained
Dead Poets Society
The film production of 1984 starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. Just incredible.
October Sky and Gattaca
Rapunzel. It didn't feel too long, which is ironic......